Distributed.
Distributed.
Podcast Description
Remote work is here to stay. Whether you’re firmly in the return to office camp or die hard distributed, the cat’s out of the bag for the industry.
The Distributed podcast, from Tuple, deconstructs how world-class engineers and their teams navigate the challenges (and opportunities) remote work creates.
Host Jack Hannah uncovers stories of teams and individuals overcoming technical challenges, working through interpersonal dynamics, and battling their own distractions.
Through these conversations, we’ll unpack the practical side of how folks work together in this new normal, and dig into the social emotional piece so often overlooked in programming.
Podcast Insights
Content Themes
The podcast covers a range of topics centered around remote work dynamics, including effective communication, team collaboration, emotional intelligence, and balancing deep work with meetings. Specific episodes delve into practices like Agile software development, sufficient design methodologies, and techniques for maintaining mental health while working remotely.
Remote work is here to stay. Whether you’re firmly in the return to office camp or die hard distributed, the cat’s out of the bag for the industry.
The Distributed podcast, from Tuple, deconstructs how world-class engineers and their teams navigate the challenges (and opportunities) remote work creates.
Host Jack Hannah uncovers stories of teams and individuals overcoming technical challenges, working through interpersonal dynamics, and battling their own distractions.
Through these conversations, we’ll unpack the practical side of how folks work together in this new normal, and dig into the social emotional piece so often overlooked in programming.
In this episode of Distributed, host Jack Hannah talks to Chris Lucian and Austin Chadwick, the creators of the Mob Mentality Show and longtime engineering leaders at Hunter Industries. Chris, Director of Global Software Development, and Austin, Distinguished Engineer, reflect on mob programming and how practices spread. They open up about what it takes to protect team culture while growing, discuss lessons from their 300+ videos on mob programming and agile, and how AI is just another member of the mob.
Highlights:
- How mob programming went from one team’s experiment to org-wide practice
- What Chris and Austin learned from publishing 300+ episodes on agile and XP
- How AI fits into social coding and the future of pairing and mobbing
In this episode, we cover:
(00:00) – Kicking things off with Chris Lucian and Austin Chadwick
(01:52) – Rearranging cubicles to make pairing possible
(03:09) – The first mob and why it worked
(05:01) – Repairing a wonky relationship with the product owner
(06:14) – Austin’s first mob and learning a new language on the fly
(07:41) – The Mob Mentality Show origin story
(09:22) – How Chris and Austin keep their episodes lean and sustainable
(12:17) – Diffusion of innovation and spreading practices
(15:18) – AI-generated code with domain languages
(18:41) – Growing the mob through cellular division while keeping culture
(24:49) – What to do when there are no internal XP mentors
(28:12) – Using AI like another member of the mob
(32:26) – Will AI replace pair and mob programming?
References
Human & AI Collaboration in Mob Programming with Aaron Griffith and Parker Barrett
Where to connect further:
Connect with Chris Lucian on LinkedIn
Connect with Austin Chadwick on LinkedIn
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Connect with Jack Hannah
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